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is no prospect of a termination of the war in that Tl4rter. The Speech then says as follows :—" I have treat satisfaction'to state, that our relations' with Vl 'mice, Russia, and the other Powers, continue the most friendly basis. The augmentation of °Lir Navy is advancing with a steady 'progress." Charleston Papers to the 22d ult. arrived this Morning. (Front The Charleston Courier.) The O►►tario, it now appears, is bound to the Colimbia, and as we formerly stated, accompanied by the most friendly wishes of Great Britain. So Ear from throwing any obstacle in the wily of our b`.ettletnent, it is said that Captain Hemv, of the krirish sloop of war Blossom, " goes to renounce all claim to the Settlement in the name of the Ir itish Government." So much for wars and rumours of wars. (From The Charleston Courier iv the 21st.) A letter front Baltimore, dated 13th inst., says, our Grand Jury, now in Session, have found bills (4 indictment against five of our Citizens, as (s wners of the Patriot privateer La Fortuna. The PRESIDENT of the United States has re "gnised JOAS PORTUGAL CALHORDA as Vice Consul of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil a nti Algarves, for the State of North Carolina. — Letters Patent, dated 10th November, 1818. We are informed, says The Essex Register, that t he Grand Jury lave found a hill against the late Cashier, arid the Chief Clerk of the Essex Bank in Salem, for a Conspiracy to defraud the Insti t►ition and for the enormous trespasses and climes t onamitted upon it.. (From The Charleston Courier of the lath.) PROM ST. CROIX.-13y the arrival at this Port O t the ship Chase, ANNER, in 14 days, from St. Croix, we learn, that the Government schooner St. Thomas bad been attacked by a Mexican li rigantine, and being weak handed, ran into Ilassend Harbour ; that she was immediately re inforced by the Garrison and by volunteers, and l ent in pursuit of the Brigantine ; and that, on t he following day (24th October), Captain A. Passed them. in pursuit of each other. The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were due this morning, have not arrived, The Morning Paper that was the prolific hot- T ed of all the recent rumours of Ministerial Ch anges, is very angry at the terms in which t hey were contradicted by another Morning Paper, which possessed better means of information. But i f the Paper io question will persevere, without all y authority, in reports that are wholly unfound hl, it is evident that it must have some interested purpose in view, or must feel a contemptible gra tification in the circulation of conscious falsehood. Ir e preceded all other Journals, in contradicting, 1 4 ) (41 the most positive authority, some time the silly reports that there was an inten tion of recalling the Marquis of HASTINGS, and that Lord MeLviLLE was going to India ; and . 1 4 the recent revival of those reports, we de nied them upon full authority. We also, 1 1)on the most solid grounds, were the first to contradict the report of the intended re tirement of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, when it was sta rted seine months ago, and upon its late re newal ; yet the Paper in question obstinately per sisted in maintaining the truth of these imaginary chan ges in Administration. It is with much Pleasure we state that perfect harmony prevails "(mg the Members of Government. They enjoy the confidence of their Sovereign and the gra titude of the Empire, as they fully deserve, as Well as the approbation of the world at la rge, for having persevered in support of that the Political Legacy of the immortal ►t TT, by which, when all the Continental Powers lad in turn submitted to an imperious and oppres sive Usurper, they delivered Europe from his fe rocious Despotism, and restored it to peace and sec ur i ty. L on g, then, may they live t-4) complete their glorious work, by improving the finances of the Country, audlessening our do- Ill eatic difficulties, which„,,Wo Wre -. persuaded, is t he most anxious purpose Ittheir administration, a nd the flourishing state of the Revenue , may in duce us confidently to expect, from their assi duity, vigilance, experience, and rectitude, a due s uPPort of the national honour anti interest abroad, with rational freedom and general happi bcss at home, in spite of Radical Reformers, Spa- Leld Incendiaries, and Diurnal Repositories of l'AcTioN„ CiMI NGAUD.—The Morning Chronicle perseveres 41 its pity of this crafty agent of the exiled Usurper, and in abuse of Government for ordering !Its remov a l front this country. It also persists accusing the Officers who took him into cus lady of improper violence. We can positively as "re our Headers, that no force was used which his 414111. ttrY did not Lender absolutely necessary. If the Officers had not proceeded with the utmost dispatch and celerity, he would have destroyed all the papers of which Government had due information, and which, from all we have heard on the subject, fully justified the removal of so misehieions a cha racter. Why does .The Chronicle so zealously en deavour to acquire this " alacrity in sinAini -" in the estimation of all wise and loyal people, by constantly advocating the cause of Foreign Mis creants and Domestic Traitors ! ! MR. HonHousE.—We have inserted in our last page, the Report of 'a Meeting at The Gun, Pim lico, on Monday last. The Candidate was very prolific in abuse of an excellent Paper on the sub ject of the Westminster Election, which we took from The Morning Post last week. But he may be sure of a satisfactory repl)% He was also some what • too free in his comments on Sir MURRAY MAXWELL, accusing him of possessing places un der Government. Dues the Candidate forget that his own Father is in the same predicament ? But Sir MURRAY MAXWELL is a gallant Officer, and has often •exposed his life in the service of his Country, and con.equently, in comparison, is much more entitled to national recornpence.— He is also a man of considerable talents, inde pendently of his profession. fie is not the author of a vile Revolutionary Book, nor is he an advocate for Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments, the tendency of which would be destructive of Go vernment and the British Constitution. THE FOG.—Several of the night coaches were last night from four to five hours later in conse quence of the fog; and the mails this morning, two hours. The country coaches from the North and different parts, which ought to have arrived at eight o'clock, had not come in at eleven, owing to the continuance of the fog, which is still (12 o'clock), very dense. CORN-EXCHANGE, Dec. 23.—1 n consequence of the thick fog which prevailed this morning, no sales Ore effected in our market, and there fore prices may be considered nominally as on Monda y. SIM' NEWS. RAMSGATE, DEC. ' 22.—The brig Mary, Jonas, from Ireland to London, with provisions, was got off last night, and brought into this harbour dis masted, •and making much water. The brig Ef fort has drove off the sand into the North Sea, or sunk in deep water—the former most probable, as a boatman of this place landed this mornin g from a ship, who reports, while on board of her, he saw a vessel at a great distance, with her sails flying about, as if abandoned. The boat he be longed to made towards her, and is not yet re turned. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 21.—came in his Majesty's brig Redwing, bound to St. Helena, &c. She run down a fishing boat belonging to this port in the night, and unfortunately two men were drowned. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Salisbury for the West Indies; Fox and lute grity•transports, for Cork. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 21.—The Henry, for the West Indies, was stranded about the 28th Oct. off Partridge Island—the cargo sold, and the ship got off. The Triton, HOGART, from Liverpool to St. Andrews, N. B. put into St. John's, N. 13: in distress, about the sth Nov., with loss of her main-top -mast, and leaky. HULL, DEC. 21.—The Dairy Maid, from York to London, and the London, from London, ran on board each other in the night, when off Cro mer, and the former received so much damage that she sunk immediately ; crew saved.- CLISTONI S LIST. Entered Inwards, December 22. Ttysbergen, Ghent; Vrow Gertruyda, Pronk. Antwerp; Hope, Rees, Bilboa ; Ann, Harrison, do. ; Good Intent, Aurora, Antwerp. Entered Ouiwards, Dec. 22.—Thetis, Reed, Hamburg]) ; Paragon, Hide, Grenada ; Mackerel, Hill, Leghorn ; Scipio, Drummond, Virginia ; Lapwing, Brook, Smyrna. Cleared Outwards., Dec. 22.—Essex, Poati, Montserrat; Ida, Passmore, Jamaica; John Shand, Rets, do.; Osprey, Mickleburg, Gibraltar; Britannia, Handy!), Grenada; Her cules, Lacheere, Dunkirk; Ann, Mathew, St. Thomas's. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Loun CHANCELLOR'S house, on account of the Noble and Learned Lord con tinuing indisposed, which was attended by the Noble Lord, the Earl of Liveitroot., Viscount Sinmotrrn, Viscount CASTLEREAGH Earl BA THURST, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. \VELLESLEY I'oI.E, the Duke of WELLINGTON, &c. The Cabinet Ministets wore summoned o►► Monday afternoon to meet yesterday, and the Duke of WELLINGTON was summoned to attend in the same manner. The Cabinet continued their deliberations till about half-past three o'clock. At the breaking up of the Council the Duke' of \VELLINGTOW rode on horseback to Carlton house, to pay his respects to the PRINCE REGENT, and remained with his Royal Highness upwards of an hour. The D►►ke of YORK had a long-conference wit his Royal Brother the PRINCE REGENT, at Car ton-house. Viscount SIDMOUTH had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT after the breaking up of the Cabinet Council yesterday. Yesterday morning, soon after eleven o'clock, Viscount CASTLEREAGH went to Carlton-house to pay his respects to the PRINC E REGENT, °Fon his return from Aix-la-Chapelle. POETRY. On the Report that the VICE-CHANCELLOR bad decided in favour of the Defendant in the BLENHEIM Cause. MARLEOROVOU may now, so Law decrees, With ruthless rage destroy the Trees, Till BLENHEIM'S noble grounds are bare: E'en TIME is not so dire a foe, For Time himself will ne'er lay low The Laurels FAmc has planted there. As he, his thousands wasting, bought - Italian trash, , ' not worth a groat, While Reason cast a scornful look, He hence, when Trees will yield no cash, Perchance, to gain more ancient trash, Might barter niENHEI3I fin- a Bosh. Oh ! CHURCHILI„t hero of the day, That.blazon'd Asse's triumphant sway, On BRITAIN turn thy pntriot eyes, For though no hero of thy line Was destin'd in her cause to shine, Lo ! WELLINGTON thy loss supplies. Nor need we fear the future race Of this great Chief will e'er deface The lofty honours of his tomb, They, jostly proud to bear his name, Will guard the trophies of his fame, His LAuttELs of eternal bloom. Boecacio wat purchased for 22601. t JOHN CHURCHILL, first Duke of MARLBOROUGH. REGIS'T'ER OF FASHION. Earl and Countess of Darnley, from Sandgate, Kent ; the Marchioness of Downshire, from her seat at lOchampton ; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hillmer, from Cheshire. DreAnTuttEs..—The Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, 'or Itadmington, Gloucestershire; Lady Elizabeth Lowther, for her fatLer's (the Earl of Lonsdale's) seat, in Rutlandshire. FOR 'l'H} SUN. NM. KEAN. MR. EDlTOR, —Considering how much thePob- lie have been gratified by - the talents of Mr. KEAN, I was not a little surprised to see an at tack upon him in a Morning Paper of yesterday. signed a PITTITE, imputing to hint any delay that may take place in the commencement of Pet form ances at Drury-Lane Theatre. The I'ITTITE does not seem to know the variety of circumstances that may occasionally retard the beginning of a Play, but he ought to reflect that it cannot be the wish any more than the interest of Managers to offend an audience by unnecessary delay. Per haps it was impolitic in . them to protract the commencement of perfOrmance till seven o'clock, because the late hour of conclusion must break in upon the regular time most co►►venient for the middling classes of the people. It had been usual, 1 understand, in the time of GAerticx, to open the doors at five and to commence at six. To accommodate the people of Fashion, the time was protracteil half an hour, lot this accommodation to a part of an au (Bence was even then inconvenient to the majority, who cline early, and do not wish to be at borne late. Seven o'clock is therefore not only inconvenient, but injurious to the people in ge nii, as intruding upon their regular habits. But it is surely unjust as well as illiberal to impute the fault wholly to Mr. KEAN, as if he was the sole cause of a delay which no doubt unavoidably oc curs as often on those nights on which he does not, as when he does, perform. It is still more unjust and illiberal, to,accuse him of addressing the audience " with a flippancy bordering on contempt," as if it were in the slightest degree probable that he would insult that Public by whom be is so warmly patronised, and upon whose favour his fortune depends. The accusation is absurd, as well as illiberal and fallacious.—By all accounts, Mr. KEAN is by TIO means buoyed up by his extraordinary popularity ; he complies with the wishes - of the audience in announcing the May for the following night, after he has labour ed through an anxious and fatiguing duty—he is kind to the theatrical community on all occasions, and I hear, on good authority, that the new Ma nager speaks of him as one who seems to have the interest of his Employers, as well as the gra tification of the Public, at heart, and is always zea lous to devote his efforts to the support of the Theatre. VINDEX. 'l'urk's Head Coffee-Nonce, Dec. 92. ELECTION OF CO\IMON COUNCIL. Yesterday the con►estec . Hishopsgate, and Cheer Freemen of their respeeti of which the nombers sto ISIIRAII-9Tlt Mr. Deputy Hay tvitill 37 "Mr. Blakesby „ Mr. Succ•erby •34 Mr. Mathie Mr. Coleman Mr. Dibbin Mr. Elliott 3l This Wald retur BISHOPSG Mr. William Day 77 *Mr. Peacock Sir %Wm. Rawlins, Ka 74 Mr. Pearson *Mr. S. Bennett.. 7. Mr. Dep. Greenaway Mr. Nash ... Mr. Davies Wards of Mead-street, p, continued to poll the ive districts—at the close as 101totV . RET wARD. Mr. Gibson I\lr. Moore Mr. Gillman Mr. Mad:more Mr. 'late *Mr. Oliver ... l3 *Mr. Tipper rns 12 Members. kTE WAIID. Mr..lndkins Mr. Rumsted . . 66 Air. Glover Mr. SI ti ford . *Nlr. Rudd .. *Mr. Downes *Mr. Stirrivant.. , *Mr. IVooler., WA R I) • Mr. Brook Mr. Perrell Mr. E. Smith *Mr. Ledger 2l !sir. Jennings *Nlr. Wothespoon lti Mr. Cheeswright resigned. rus 12 ',Members. ly close this day, at 4 o'clock. are iiew candidates. CHEAP I%lr. Deputy Loxley 31 Mr. T. Smith Mr. Keats • Mr. Fenning 25 Mr. Jones *Mr: James 25 Mr. Jcrram This Ward retur The different polls will Gn3lll Those marked thus • The long protracted preliminary proCess against CANTlLLoN,charged with having fired a pistol at the carriage of the Duke of WELLINGTON ; and against MAuttroT, implicated in the same affair, the Paris Papers of Saturday say approaches its termination. CANTILLON underwent a new in terrogatory on Friday, before the Jute d'lnstruc tion. Driscoll, the unfortunate convict, who was ex ecuted last week, was hurried yesterday in White chapvl church-yard. FOR THE SUN. '1 1. c. MR. Eo;Tost,—,Having heretofore premised to you that I am unacquainted with Hehiew, my observations can have no other weight than as spewing what may be the impression on the tuind of an uninitiated spectator, looking upon the contest maiotained in that arena, in whicii CANDIDUS has thrown, down his gauntlet. lie himself seems a Knight prancing round the lists in proud defiance, and, in his own opinion, armed at all points (Hebrew points, I presume, not ex cepted), but to me, he really seems to have for gotten that one of the meanings of the word " Candidus" is " courteous," and courtesy used to be a sine qua non in chivalry. I must also pie some, that STACKHOUSE is thoroughly convers ant with Hebrew, for if those two competitors in the controversy are not thus Furnished, every one of us, who may only possess a plain Eng lish coat, may differ in opinion from them, with out being guilty of a bredch of decorum. I know nothing of Mr. BELLAMY'S Translation, but from those specimens which have been el.cit •ed pro and con in your Columns on the present occasion ; and for myself, I 'mast say, that if those be a sample of the whole, whatever the Bible may gain in fidelity of Translation it still more than lose in sublimity of expression, and in the specimen selected by Mr. B. himself in his prospectus, and pointed out by one of your intelligent Correspondents in THE St N of Wed ' nesday last, he has been peculiarly unfortunate, that Correspondent having satisfactorily proved it to be a mere change of tense and transposition of words, inducing a complete dislocation of sense. STACKHOUSE, if I mistake not, in one of Isis lucubrations, asserts, that there are five hun dred errors in the Bible. I wonder that be did not say an error in every verse, HS perhaps Air. BELLA:srY's Translation may make every verse different from the present one, and Mr. BELLAmi must he right, tor STACKHOUSE intorms us, that le has I know not how many great names head- ing his Subscription•list. Now, Sir, I really never befo►e knew that subsetibing to any pub lication was an act of subscription to• the doc trine, or whatever it h►ay be, of the work itselt ; a test of merit on the one hand, and of unequi vocal approbation on the other ; or that a %vork so headed becomes unamenable . to criticism. STACKHOUSE, in another lettvr, seems not inclit►- ed to treat the subject very reverently. when he sneers at one of the means by which our Saviour himself was pleased to induce men to leadsvirtn ous lives, the dread of eternal punishment—and upon the whole, I am free to say, that I think very many of the arguments of STACKHOUSB arc built upon sandy foundations. We have been accustomed to look upon the Bible as the word of God—a numerous society are incessantly en gaged in circulating it, as such, without note or comment ; another, in so doing, accompanied with tracts and commentaries 5 and although dif ferent opinions may exist as to whiei of the modes of circulation adopted by these two mere human institutions may be the preferable, yet it is still the Bible which they both cbculate—the Bible in its present form, not Mr. BELLsmv's ver sion of it ; it is this book of errors (as STACK HOUSE cal4s it) which they put into the hands of the young, the innocent, the uninformed, the sinner, and the penitent, as the well of living waters from whence to draw instruction, admo nition, consolation, comfort, and support, in every season, trial, and vicissitude of lite. la that sacred volume we are told, that the ways of God are past finding out, that he chooses the weak things of the earth to confound the strong —and that those who worship him must worship him in purity and in troth. How &Greta would he the contemplation of the Mystery of our Holy Redemption in the thoughts of a Philosopher and a Christian. The latter hears or reads " that a Virgin shall conceive and bring forth a Son," without a blush passing over his countenance, or one unhallowed thought approaching his mind. The mere Philosopher might pursue the subject far otherwise ; and whence this difference ? be cause the contemplation of the Christian is ac companied with and conlrouled by his devotional feelings, and on such s subject be will not suffer his thoughts to wander. Thus, at the altai . , the hus band declares that he will worship his wife, in other words, that he will never forget the ho nourable nature of that holy state. Might not this controul of our thoughts be equally exercised on other occasions ? May not some of those pas sages in Scripture which we call objectionable, be inserted there for reasons to us inscrutable? As to some, we know, that they have become 'objec tionable front the usages of society, which have rendered some expressions coarse and common, which formerly were not so; but divers passages may have been originally intended for, and even those others may have now become, tests of our fidelity, like the tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden, where our first parents walked naked, and were not ashamed, until they had transgress ed the commandment which forbade them to taste of the fruit of that tree ; after which transgres sion, the miserable state of fallen man required a longer code of laws, one of which enjoins us to be pure in heart.—''out's respectfully, Dec. 19, 1818. H. About six o'clock last night, as a L and , Gentleman were crossing the mall from the Strand to Catherine-street, the Gentleman . was pushed down by alio! her person who was running violently across, and, before be could get up, the horses of a coal-waggon trampled on him severely. Fortu nately the driver heard his cries and stopped the horses, or the consequences might have proved fatal. The Lady escaped unhurt. A Gentleman, in proceeding through the Piazza in Covent-garden, was robbed in the most dat ink manner, by three or four young thieves, of his silk handkerchief. He pursued them, but Coe thickness of the fog enabled them to escapu'. A young woman with a child, crossing tbe.road from Great Russell-street to Drury-lane Theatre, came in contact with a Gentleman's carriage, and being confused in attempting to get hack, by the shouting of a driver• of a cat t, which came be tween her and the coach, dropped the child, when the wheel of the cart passed over its arm, ail slightly grazed its face. It was taken to a sur geon's in (.Meat Russell-fait:et. .0 0 ......" 10 6 pr. if . Lit - Bil [4. Ile Jo r 4 4 es